WRITER

Clemence Dane

1888 - 1965

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Winifred Ashton CBE, better known by the pseudonym Clemence Dane (21 February 1888 – 28 March 1965), was an English novelist and playwright. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clemence Dane has received more than 82,159 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Clemence Dane is the 6,684th most popular writer (down from 6,069th in 2019), the 6,097th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,679th in 2019) and the 692nd most popular British Writer.

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  • 82k

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  • 39.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Will Shakespeare
In literature, Drama, Dramatists
1921
Regiment of Women
Fiction, Women teachers, Teacher-student relationships
*Regiment of Women* is the debut novel of Winifred Ashton writing as Clemence Dane. First published in 1917, the novel has gained some notoriety due to its more or less veiled treatment of lesbian relationships inside and outside a school setting. It is said to have inspired Radclyffe Hall to write The Well of Loneliness.
1917
A bill of divorcement
1921
Legend
Fiction, Women novelists, Death
1919
The Floating Admiral
Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, crime
1931
Broome Stages
Fiction
A review quoted in the blog, Clothes in Books: "It’s a very long book indeed, (700 pages), and in a very general way it’s a family saga, but it’s like no family saga I’ve ever read, before or since. It spans 1715 to 1930, and covers seven generations of a theatrical family. The story begins with travelling players in tavern courtyards, and traces the family’s fortunes – through the Victorian actor managers, those lovely fruity characters who re-wrote Shakespeare to suit themselves – and on into the opening years of the 20th century, with the onset of the early movies. It’s about the changing world of the theatre, but it’s also about the Broomes themselves – their loves and hates, and feuds and plots. It’s about their fortunes in the theatre world – the buying of theatres, the building of a theatrical dynasty. Woven into it all, is the famous ‘Broome charm’ – the gift bestowed on the first Broome of them all by a notorious witch of the time. As a result – “All the Broomes have charm,” explains the opening line. “It is their epithet.” The writing is exquisite – polished and graceful – and the characters and their backgrounds are so vivid that the present-day dissolves as you read." Sarah Rayne
1931

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Clemence Dane ranks 6,684 out of 7,302. Before her are Bayard Taylor, Julia Phillips, Al Jean, DBC Pierre, Helle Helle, and Joseph Finder. After her are Mary Augusta Ward, Thomas Shadwell, Aleš Debeljak, Jill Abramson, Anthony E. Zuiker, and Nadav Lapid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Clemence Dane ranks 276. Before her are Chandrashekhar Agashe, Monty Woolley, Georges Vanier, Paul Cavanagh, Marguerite Marsh, and Tor Lund. After her are Lucien Hubbard, John Crowe Ransom, Thomas Sopwith, Clarence DeMar, Hazel Abel, and Jay Gould II. Among people deceased in 1965, Clemence Dane ranks 238. Before her are Óscar Cristi, Daniel Frank, Henry Weed Fowler, Zachary Scott, Gladys Davis, and Randall Jarrell. After her are Louis Baillon, Haldor Halderson, Creighton Hale, H. V. Evatt, Eddie Gribbon, and Willard Schmidt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Clemence Dane ranks 6,097 out of 8,785. Before her are George MacKay (1992), Taio Cruz (1980), Peter Safran (1965), Freya Allan (2001), Allan Clarke (1946), and Rag'n'Bone Man (1985). After her are Yasmin Le Bon (1964), Leslie Benzies (1971), Thomas Shadwell (1642), Peter Serafinowicz (1972), Wendy Richard (1943), and Riz Ahmed (1982).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Clemence Dane ranks 692. Before her are Frederick Denison Maurice (1805), Sheila Jeffreys (1948), Victoria Hislop (1959), Rose Tremain (1943), Catherine Cookson (1906), and James Kelman (1946). After her are Thomas Shadwell (1642), Nicholas Monsarrat (1910), Elizabeth Carter (1717), Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802), David Hare (1947), and Alison Weir (1951).

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